Quintessentially Lowcountry

Traditional joggling boards find a new seat in the Lowcountry

A joggling board sits outside the ancestral home of the Kinloch family in Scotland. Local lore claims the idea for the Souths joggling board came from manor residents in the early 1800s. Earl McMillan III of Beaufort is a Kinloch decendant and recently had a new joggling board shipped to the estate from Charleston.

At the turn of the 19th century, there was a staple in the South that graced front porches, just as swing sets adorned backyards a few generations later.

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BEAUFORT NEWS

Historic site recalls Lowcountry's French, Spanish past

Far from the booming voices of drill instructors sits a historic site near the southern tip of Parris Island. The site, historians say, once typified the rivalry between two empires aspiring to claim land in the New World.
LOCAL NEWS

Family, community form seam of Lowcountry Baseball League

If a constant has run through the S.C. Lowcountry Baseball League since its inception some 40 years ago, it is family.
LOCAL NEWS

Quintessentially Lowcountry: Bargain-hunting at dozens of thrift shops

They help fund everything from shelters for abused children to treatment of stray animals, and in the bargain, their customers get, well, bargains.
LOCAL NEWS

Lowcountry dolphins are a different kettle of fish (or mammal)

The first time Mike Overtonsaw the bottlenose dolphins of Hilton Head Island propel themselves out of the water onto marsh banks in perfect unison to feed on fish, he was amazed.
LOCAL NEWS

Quintessentially Lowcountry: 'Palmetto bugs' -- the downside of Southern living

Clobber them with a shoe, let a pet rip their bodies apart, or when the messy, all-over-the-floor methods get old, hire an exterminator.
LOCAL NEWS

Keep your eyes open! Manatees have come to visit

One of the advantages of our exceptionally hot weather is that it draws a lovable but hard-to-spot sea creature to Lowcountry waters.
QUINTESSENTIALLY LOWCOUNTRY

Quintessentially Lowcountry: Sandbars make for high times at low tide

(Editor's note: An error in this story was corrected June 27, 2010.)
LOCAL NEWS

Quintessentially Lowcountry: Area adopts East Coast's blessing-of-the-fleet tradition

If Lowcountry people were as blessed as their fleets, maybe this really would be paradise.
LOCAL NEWS

Quintessentially Lowcountry: Carnegie-funded building first permanent library in Beaufort

The brick building at the corner of Carteret and Craven streets is vacant. A sign on the door indicates its last tenant, the city of Beaufort Codes Enforcement department, moved out in May 2009.
LOCAL NEWS

Quintessentially Lowcountry: Educating freed slaves was the foundation of today's Beaufort colleges

Long before the Technical College of the Lowcountry began training computer programmers and green-building technicians, the daughters of newly freed slaves learned to read, write and manage a household on the college's campus on the banks of the Beaufort River.